Session: Symposium--Towards a Conceptual Model of Soil Carbon Cycling Across Scales: I (ASA, CSSA and SSSA International Annual Meetings)

268 Symposium--Towards a Conceptual Model of Soil Carbon Cycling Across Scales: I

Oral Session

SSSA Division: Soil Chemistry

This session will focus on soil carbon cycling, considering molecular aspects of soil carbon chemistry and mineral associations to ecosystem-scale carbon dynamics.

Cosponsor(s):

Soil Biology & Biochemistry, Forest, Range & Wildland Soils

Tuesday, November 5, 2013: 8:30 AM-12:10 PM

Tampa Convention Center, Room 3

Organizers:

Peter Nico and Rodrigo Vargas

Moderators:

Peter Nico and Rodrigo Vargas

8:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:35 AM

268-1

From Litter Decomposition to SOM Formation: What Are We Missing?.
M. Francesca Cotrufo, Colorado State University

9:00 AM

268-2

Challenges to Measuring and Modeling Soil Organic Matter Stability.
Alain F. Plante, University of Pennsylvania

9:25 AM

268-3

Aggregates to Ecosystems: Representing Managment Impacts On Soil C Turnover.
Keith Paustian, Colorado State University; Eleanor Campbell, Colorado State University; Gabriel Olchin, Dupont Crop Protection; Johan Six, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

9:50 AM

268-4

Linking Aggregate-Scale Mechanisms and Landscape-Scale Drivers to Understand Soil Carbon Dynamics.
Julie D Jastrow, Argonne National Laboratory

10:15 AM

Break

10:30 AM

268-5

Invertebrate Controlled Spatial and Temporal Gradients in Soil Chemistry.
Timothy Filley, Purdue University

10:55 AM

268-6

The Role of Mineral Surface Chemistry in Determining the Composition and Mean Residence Time of the Stabilized Soil Organic Matter Pool.
Katherine Heckman, USDA Forest Service (FS)

11:20 AM

268-7

Minerals and Fire: Controls On Soil Carbon Storage in Western Conifer Forests.
Craig Rasmussen, University of Arizona

11:45 AM

268-8

Mineral-Associated Organic Matter.
Karin Eusterhues, Institut für Geowissenschaften

12:10 PM

Concluding Remarks

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